On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:54:08 -0000, Hendrik van Rooyen
<m...@microcorp.co.za> wrote:
<r......@bi...nce.com> wrote:
PS: More accurately, Python _embodies_ a philosophy, and to advocate
changes that go against that philosophy is to advocate changing
Python into something that would no longer be Python. You can do
that, but you aren't likely to get the community to follow you.
*sits on his hands to try to avoid the tangent, with the gaping hole of
religion
looming beneath the spiderweb of philosophy, and the language spec
gathering
dust in the corner, forgotten and forlorn*
This really, really, *really* isn't a tangent. It's the heart of
the matter. You are advocating a change that doesn't fit with
Python's "consenting adults" approach to programming. It's trivial
to enforce hiding using static checking tools if you really feel the
need to not trust yourself; it's much harder (though by no means
impossible) to break language-enforced hiding when (not if) an
interface turns out to be inadequate.
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